There was an hour examination in German 3 yesterday.

There will be examinations in Italian I, History I and History XII today.

W. A. Leahy, '87, is an instructor in Latin and French at Milton academy.

A number of Harvard men will take part in the regiment games at Brooklyn, on December 28.

Students who leave Cambridge for the recess must first return all books borrowed from the library.

Frank P. Sheldon, '89, has settled for the winter in Berlin, where he is devoting himself to a thorough study of the German language.

Mr. C. A. Gregory, of Chicago, who will lecture this evening on "The Great American Desert, or the Arid Regions and the Means of its Reclamation," is a member of the class of '55.

The questions to be presented by the Executive committee to the Harvard Union tonight are: 1 Resolved, That the internal revenue tax on tobacco, and spirits used in the arts should be removed; 2, That the duties of the Supreme court should be lessened by the establishment of intermediate courts; 3, That a national divorce law should be enacted by congress.

The Princeton college nine has arranged to play the New Yorks April 10 and 15; the Athletics, April 3, the Newarks, April 12; the Staten Islands, April 13; the Bergen Points, April 16; the Cuban Giants, April 17; the Detroits. April 20. Games have also been arranged with the University of Pennsylvania, with Rutgers college, and with the Jaspers of Manhattan college.

The annual meeting of the Harvard club of Maryland, was held at the St. James hotel, Baltimore, on December 7. The officers elected for the ensuing year were: president, Judge Thomas J. Morris; vice-presidents, Dr. R. B. Morison, Professor A. M. Elliott; secretary. H. Ivah Thomsen; treasurer, J. B. Noel Wyatt; directors, Leigh Bonsal, W. H. Brune, Professor A. M. Hartwell.

Courtney has been engaged to coach the Cornell crew again this year. He will take charge of the men in January. Special efforts will be made to produce a winning freshman crew, as it is expected that races will be rowed with Yale, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. The 'Varsity crew hopes to induce Yale to reconsider her refusal to row Cornell, and it is also rumored that a challenge will be sent to Harvard.